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Attorney General's Baseless Investigation into Border Aid Organization Fails
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org After several attempts to investigate humanitarian aid...
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Aug 30, 20243 min read
Voting Rights Organizations React to Attorney General Investigation into Organizations that Register Texans to Vote
In response to Attorney General Ken Paxton’s August 21, 2024 announcement of an investigation into unnamed nonprofits for setting up...
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Aug 27, 20242 min read
Texas “Trump Train” Case Headed to Trial After Court Denies Summary Judgment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 05, 2024 CONTACT: Texas Civil Rights Project | media@texascivilrightsproject.org A jury will now decide if...
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Aug 5, 20243 min read
Advocates Respond to Harrowing Findings from DOJ Investigation into Texas Juvenile Justice Department
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2024 Contact: Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org The investigation finds TJJD...
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Aug 2, 20245 min read
Fifth Circuit Court Rules That Galveston Minority Voting Coalitions Are Not Protected Under Voting Rights Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2024 Contact: Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Southern Coalition for Social...
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Aug 2, 20244 min read
Democracy From the Ground Up Coalition Celebrates Bexar County Commissioner’s Recommitment to an Elections & Voter Engagement Advisory Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2024 MEDIA CONTACTS: Texas Civil Rights Project: media@texascivilrightsproject.org MOVE Texas:...
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Jul 9, 20243 min read
Advocates Gather to Oppose the $304 Million Proposal for a New Child Jail in Travis County
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2024 Contacts: Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org MEASURE, angel@wemeasure.org...
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Jun 27, 20245 min read
Immigrants’ Rights Groups Sue Biden Administration Over New Anti-Asylum Rule
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2024 WASHINGTON — Immigrants’ rights groups today sued the Biden administration over the president’s...
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Jun 12, 20244 min read
Texas Civil Rights Project Condemns Executive Order Announcement of Limitations of Asylum at Southern Border
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org Alamo, TX – Today, President Biden announced an Executive...
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Jun 4, 20242 min read
Immigration Rights Groups File Lawsuit to Gain Medical Records of 8-Year-Old Who Died in CBP Custody Last Year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2024 Contact: Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Haitian Bridge Alliance,...
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May 17, 20243 min read
Galveston Community Stands Together for Review of Redistricting Case
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org The review questions if communities of color in Galveston...
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May 13, 20243 min read
Civil Rights Groups Sue Customs and Border Protection for Disability Rights Compliance Records Pertaining to CBP One
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2024 Contact: TCRP, media@texascivilrightsproject.org CREEC, lmurchie@creeclaw.org (Los Angeles, CA) - Al...
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May 7, 20243 min read
Texas Civil Rights Project Files Complaint Against Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Use of SPD Code Policy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 7, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org TDCJ violated the Fourteenth Amendment by confining people...
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May 6, 20243 min read
Amid Mass Arrests, Texas Civil Rights Project Denounces Criminalization of First Amendment Rights of College Students at UT Austin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org AUSTIN, TEXAS - In the last week, over 50 students were...
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Apr 29, 20241 min read
TCRP Urges the Department of Justice to Investigate Texas' de facto Immigration Scheme, Operation Lone Star
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT URGES THE DEPARTMENT OF...
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Apr 29, 20243 min read
Corpus Christi ISD Violates Education Law According to State Agency Investigation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2024 CONTACT: Edie Surtees, Disability Rights Texas, esurtees@DRTx.org Willis Jacobson, National Center...
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Apr 24, 20242 min read
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Blocks Extreme Texas Anti-Immigrant Law From Going Into Effect
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2024 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby Arias,...
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Mar 26, 20243 min read
Civil Rights Organizations File Administrative Complaint Against CBP One App, Claiming Discrimination Against People With Disabilities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2024 Contact: Texas Civil Rights Project - media@texascivilrightsproject.org Civil Rights Education and...
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Mar 25, 20243 min read
Supreme Court Allows Anti-Immigrant Texas Law to Go into Effect
Court allows stay on injunction while appeal is pending FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2024 CONTACT: Texas Civil Rights Project,...
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Mar 18, 20243 min read
Supreme Court Extends Pause on Anti-Immigrant Texas Legislation that Would Overstep Federal Law
Decision prevents law from going into effect until March 18 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2024 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil...
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Mar 12, 20243 min read
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